Just got word that Melanie passed away. My sister Gloria used to play this song over and over back in the 70's. Gloria passed away last year from cancer at 67. Rest in peace Gloria... rest in peace Melanie. Melanie did not need all the computers that today's "singers" need. Pure real voice!!
Put Melanie in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame posthumously. It's an unbelievable shame that she wasn't inducted in her lifetime. Such a generational icon and talent! RIP beautiful soul. Cheers\=/\=/
I’ve given up on the HOF. There are too many talented artists not in it. Melanie is in my personal HOF. That’s all that matters to me. RIP to one who had both an angelic face and voice.
@@robertosborne8694 I'm not sure which list is longer Robert. The list of people who should be in the HOF but aren't, or the list of people who are in and don't belong there. At any rate you're right, we know how much we loved her and how much she meant to our generation. Cheers\=/\=/
My sister,15 years between us, (her older) LOVED Melanie . She married when I was 8 . I was devastated . She came to me at her Wedding reception and told me shed left me something on my bed. It was her Melanie Records. She died a couple of years later. NOBODY could sing like Melanie ,but I hear my Sis ,nearly 50 years later ,every time. Thanks Melanie , im owe you one girl xx
One voice, one guitar, no big show, no effects no flashing lights, no gimmicks ,no suggestive moves. The days when you could sit and listen to a natural singer.
Up until i heard of Melanie Safka's death, i only knew of the Rolling Stones version. Although the Rolling Stones version is good, i actually very much enjoyed this version. She was much more talented then some remembering her for "Brand New Key". Of course, people who followed her throughout her career most likely already knew this. I love this version. I just want to keep playing it. Thank you Melanie for sharing your talents and yourself in this world. May you rest in peace.
Something to trash about RS/Mick's perf? For me, he's generally impeccable, compelling beyond words on ballads like Wild Horses.I don't need to knock anyone to savor Melanie. Her recorded verses on this are sublime too IMO, yet the choruses chaotic, like she got different producers.
I was fifteen when Melanie released this song from her album candles in the rain 1970 written by Keith Richards I still play it today 2024 this song has stayed with me my whole life
She was a singular talent - by that I mean she didn't sound like anyone else and no one sounded like her. Such an amazing strong voice. She hit when I was in high school. We all loved her songs. Sad to hear today that she's passed on to the next world. RIP Melanie Safka
I am 67 this birthday ( less than a fortnight away). When I first heard this lady sing this number I was blown away, I was still at school.18/04/2023 maybe 50 years later, still feel the roots of my soul and thank the talent of people like this for keeping it real THANK YOU LOVE IT.
AMEN AND VIETNAM the Fighting Strength, Lynn Hampton, Benn Hoe Mash Nurse. Many THEORIES ON IF WE WON . HAVE SUPPER AT A THAI RESTAURANT. IT'S PAST NOON IN BANKOK.
I didn't think when I left this comment I'd be returning to express my sadness at Melanie's passing. One of the greatest voices of our time who really captured the hope and optimism of the 60s. Rest in peace Melanie. We will miss you.
I had a tear in my eye when I heard yesterday that Melanie had left us. I was 7 years old in 1970 and just getting into music. God Bless you Melanie and may you rest in Eternal Peace Tony in Portsmouth England.
Brilliant version of a great song. Melanie puts so much emotion into all her songs, a singer who should've had much more success than she achieved. A minimal delivery, just voice and guitar, but that's all what was needed. Brilliant!
So love this woman and her music from the beginning when I heard Lay Down on a jukebox in Island Heights, NJ! Never stopped following her as she’s an original American icon and needs to be fully recognized for what she gave, artistically, to the world. 🎶❤️🎶❤️
I must have played this album more times than I can remember. Listening to it today Melanie"s voice transports me back to the early 70s when anything seemed possible as we smoked and drank through the night. I'm 71 now...catch your dreams before they slip away.
Melanie always brings me to tears. There is something so deeply emotive in her sound...no matter what she sings - and she is extraordinary beautiful...XXXXXXX
How can a version be so incredibly better than the original? Playing without the minor chord gives it such a strength ! This is usually the first song I play in english when I’m with friends Love you Melanie…from Chile
The other brilliant version of a song is Joe Cocker singing A Little Help From My Friends which outshines the Beatles' original. I think either Lennon or McCartney said " That's how we should have done it. "
When I was a kid I had a huge crush on Melanie. I was mesmerized by her photo on the Gather Me album as an 11 year old boy. All these years later and I am now an old man at 60 and still think she is a beautiful woman inside and out. I don't know her personally but from what I gather by her singing, stories and demeanor she is a lovely soul. When she sings her voice brings me peace. I cannot say that about too many singers. Melanie. Joni Mitchell. Thank you Melanie, for the years of pleasure you have given me with yout voice and art. I still have my original copy of Stoneground Words on Vinyl. Time to put it on for a spin.
my beautiful granddaughter Brianna soon to turn 18 chose your version of this amazing song to sing for her senior solo as she graduates from performance academy in West Virginia, i had a dream you were in the audience and came on stage and sang the last chorus with her....i woke up in tears, thank you for making music that is still tattooed in the mind of a sixty year old woman and still being discovered and loved by a 17 yr old who is ready to go out and change the world. We love you for being the soundtrack for our lives from teen to grandma
Thanks Kathy, I'm going to be 60 this December and love those times, this song, beautiful memories, and my two young adult children grew up listening to these types of music and just love it 👏👏👏👏👏
Melanie always blows me away! You can both see and feel her emotional energy. She is one of the most talented and beautiful natural vocalists that I have ever heard and that says a lot from this old madman.
Thank you very much for this RUclips Channel...thank you very much for all beautiful songs and videos. My mother loved your song Ruby Tuesday so much,that she called me Melanie when I was born. Kind regards and love from Germany,Düsseldorf.🐞🙏😊👀🎤🎵🎧🎶💕💓🙂
We just don't have these kinds of singers anymore. Girl power in the 60's and 70's!!! I loved Melanie and her unique voice. When I'm down, these songs bring me back up. I could crawl back into this era easily.
I have never been able to understand "along the watchtower". I mean, a watchtower is a vertical thing whereas "along" is essentially horizontal. Many songs have nonsenses like this. I wish I could stop myself analysing lyrics. It's a curse. Try getting me started on American Pie ....
its gonna be my funeral song ...it's been my constant companion ...been a Stones and Dylan fan since I was 14 ....Melanie , blows everyone out the window with this version
Candles in the rain was an iconic album when I was a student in 1969, I'm 71 now and still love this track. Saw Melanie and her son at the opera house Buxton a few years ago she's still terrific.
This is the way to make a song your own. I know life has not always treated you right Melanie,but you are leaving a legacy of such intensely powerful performances like this that people like me can only be thankful to have been breathing the same air as such a genuine artist.
Just got word that Melanie passed away. My sister Gloria used to play this song over and over back in the 70's. Gloria passed away last year from cancer at 67. Rest in peace Gloria... rest in peace Melanie. Melanie did not need all the computers that today's "singers" need. Pure real voice!!
Amen
My sincere condolences to you, your loved ones and family. Your sister Gloria is sorely missed, as is Melanie.
My condolences. This remains my favorite version. I'm sad to hear of her passing.
My sincere condolences also.
❤️❤️❤️😢
Melanie, you were the real deal. You didn't need any flash. You had real talent.
Yes, yes and yes.
SHE was the flash....😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤❤
Put Melanie in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame posthumously. It's an unbelievable shame that she wasn't inducted in her lifetime. Such a generational icon and talent! RIP beautiful soul. Cheers\=/\=/
I’ve given up on the HOF. There are too many talented artists not in it. Melanie is in my personal HOF. That’s all that matters to me. RIP to one who had both an angelic face and voice.
@@robertosborne8694 I'm not sure which list is longer Robert. The list of people who should be in the HOF but aren't, or the list of people who are in and don't belong there. At any rate you're right, we know how much we loved her and how much she meant to our generation. Cheers\=/\=/
What a unique voice, i hear it and am a teenager again in those wonderful 70's .
Oh how I miss the 70s...
My sister,15 years between us, (her older) LOVED Melanie . She married when I was 8 . I was devastated . She came to me at her Wedding reception and told me shed left me something on my bed. It was her Melanie Records. She died a couple of years later. NOBODY could sing like Melanie ,but I hear my Sis ,nearly 50 years later ,every time. Thanks Melanie , im owe you one girl xx
Iwas 15 in 1975, i hear her unique voice and i'm back in those wonderful days.
@@user-gx2yy1df6f Thanks ,I know what you mean, not my Era ,not really ,but id have that time again .
What a star. It's not easy to take a famous song, and make it yours. Her rendition can stand alone. RIP Melanie.
A song with so much meaning with a lot more meaning from Melanie.
One voice, one guitar, no big show, no effects no flashing lights, no gimmicks ,no suggestive moves. The days when you could sit and listen to a natural singer.
It amazes me what we used to listen to compared to now.
I was there in spirit, and I will be again.
2 guitars here.
@@richardperkins5046 Right, but that does not change the fact of the statement being absolutely true.
@@martinhahn1390 No, it doesn't change. It is still great to hear real music.
RIP kid. She was married before she played at Woodstock, and stayed with the same bloke until he died in 2010...Very unusual in the music industry!
Yup. PRAISES TO Saint George, Melanie fought the world and won💖❤️™️🎶
MELANIE, .. ..
Will be watching with her Hubby.....
NOTRE DAME is Being Restored, IS Luther and The Methodist s there yet❓️
Up until i heard of Melanie Safka's death, i only knew of the Rolling Stones version. Although the Rolling Stones version is good,
i actually very much enjoyed this version. She was much more talented then some remembering her for "Brand New Key". Of course, people who followed her throughout her career most likely already knew this. I love this version. I just want to keep playing it.
Thank you Melanie for sharing your talents and yourself in this world. May you rest in peace.
Thank goodness somebody was smart enough to film this so it will be saved for our grandkids will know what real music and pure performing is.
she is an american treasure
@@danaruggia748sorry she was born in a place called Stamford hill in north London UNITED KINGDOM 🇬🇧
Something to trash about RS/Mick's perf? For me, he's generally impeccable, compelling beyond words on ballads like Wild Horses.I don't need to knock anyone to savor Melanie. Her recorded verses on this are sublime too IMO, yet the choruses chaotic, like she got different producers.
I was fifteen when Melanie released this song from her album candles in the rain 1970 written by Keith Richards I still play it today 2024 this song has stayed with me my whole life
One of the best covers ever. She makes it her song
My god I’m crying .. your voice still gets me 50 years later
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True!
Me too. Her voice has so many colors.
Thank God we can still be moved to tears..!
Still brings tears to my eyes 51 yrs later Gods blessings to you Melanie
This is the best version of the song - no one does it better than Melanie - love it 🤩🤩🙏🙏🎶🎶😍😍💖💖💕💕
RIP at 76 1-23-24
@@jon2849 😢💔😪
WE ALL WONDER, And MELANIE, YOU CAPTURED THE ANSWER❤️🎶🙏💒🏩💖™️®️©️💖™️
Yup.
@jon2849. THANKS, WOW, today is Wednesday after St. GEORGES. MELANIE INVADED The Thoughts, the LIES of the WORLD AND WON
We just lost this beautiful lady with an amazing voice. Always loved her and her message.
Your songs will live on forever Melanie! Thank you so much for sharing your songs and your incredible distinctive voice ❤🎶RIP sweet Angel🕊️🕯️🌹
My boyhood crush is gone, R.IP. Melanie, one of the true greats!
She was a singular talent - by that I mean she didn't sound like anyone else and no one sounded like her. Such an amazing strong voice. She hit when I was in high school. We all loved her songs. Sad to hear today that she's passed on to the next world. RIP Melanie Safka
I am 67 this birthday ( less than a fortnight away). When I first heard this lady sing this number I was blown away, I was still at school.18/04/2023 maybe 50 years later, still feel the roots of my soul and thank the talent of people like this for keeping it real THANK YOU LOVE IT.
It's worth being older now, to have been young then.
That simple statement is so very profound.
At 66, I've often said I would never want to grow up now. The boomer generation was a very special time.❤
harleygal420 You are correct my friend.
It sure is, especially when I hear the old music on youtube
Perfect Harleygal.. you speak for a lot of people I’m sure ❣️❣️
We're going to miss you too. Beautiful Melanie.
What a brilliant interpretation of that song. I feel like I understand it for the first time.👏👏❤️❤️
RIP at 76. 1-23-24
AMEN AND VIETNAM the Fighting Strength, Lynn Hampton, Benn Hoe Mash Nurse.
Many THEORIES ON IF WE WON
. HAVE SUPPER AT A THAI RESTAURANT.
IT'S PAST NOON
IN BANKOK.
RIP Melanie. Such a beautiful voice, soul and human. Such a beautiful lady 💜💜💜
Melanie puts incredible amounts of genuine emotion into songs. She's on a different level to most artists.
I didn't think when I left this comment I'd be returning to express my sadness at Melanie's passing. One of the greatest voices of our time who really captured the hope and optimism of the 60s. Rest in peace Melanie. We will miss you.
Oh yes totally agree She really represented the genuineness of that special time. Miss that Miss her. RIP. Sweet Melanie!!
HOW DID THIS Happen, iwas about 11 and we heard JONi Mitchell, Clouds, and united we stand, yes Melanie you TWO WON, Vs. The whirled of PEAs.
RIP Melanie: Your songs made a lot of people happy.
And MADE US UNDERSTAND AND GIVE HOPE TO OTHERS.
I had a tear in my eye when I heard yesterday that Melanie had left us. I was 7 years old in 1970 and just getting into music. God Bless you Melanie and may you rest in Eternal Peace
Tony in Portsmouth England.
Brilliant version of a great song. Melanie puts so much emotion into all her songs, a singer who should've had much more success than she achieved. A minimal delivery, just voice and guitar, but that's all what was needed. Brilliant!
What a beautiful rendition of this song. Her voice is truly an incredible instrument.
Hello Mary
How are you doing today ?
RIP Melanie Ruby Tuesday was a beautiful song that influenced so many including me x
RIP Beautiful Lady X
The power, emotion and raw energy that Melanie puts into her singing leaves me breathless and tearful. Just beautiful.
Me emociono al escucharla y cedo a las lágrimas...
The most beautiful girl I ever saw
The very BEST version of this song...powerful, haunting and above all, emotional...bless you Melanie.
RIP - Melanie Safka, my Astoria, NYC home girl. Your music kept me going while I was in a war in Southeast Asia.
The lyrics the music such a sweet song about a free spirit
So love this woman and her music from the beginning when I heard Lay Down on a jukebox in Island Heights, NJ! Never stopped following her as she’s an original American icon and needs to be fully recognized for what she gave, artistically, to the world. 🎶❤️🎶❤️
this song takes me back to when life was so simple unlike the struggles of today
😌
Ya I feel the same . Pictures going through my minds eye of a completely different time that once was . For sure .
But sadly, a time that has long gone
We believed we were free then. Now it has gone.
To go back for a moment in time then.....
I must have played this album more times than I can remember. Listening to it today Melanie"s voice transports me back to the early 70s when anything seemed possible as we smoked and drank through the night. I'm 71 now...catch your dreams before they slip away.
This is a superb performance, shades of Joplin even, yet with that unique Melanie voice.
I agree.
I thought so too
What a wonderful rendition......Melanie is truly special . I'm so glad to have grown up during an era with such talented musicians and singers.....
one of the great voices
RIP at 76. 1-23-24
I'm feeling crushed. Rest in Peace sweet angel. You brought us so much comfort.
The difference between Melanie and the wannabees is her emotion, she puts it into every song she sings, which makes it like she's singing just to you.
So true, in today's world we simply don't see this anymore.
Melanie truly cares about people.
The Wannabees - was that her backing group?
Back in this era, musicians were real raw talent! A guitar & a voice.. Purely organic!! Still play all this music 😊
so it is, she give allways here Soul in each song…….
The more i listen to today,s music, if we can call it that, the more i realize how great music from the past was!
Shivers and chills, a living music icon. Who ever sang Ruby T. better!? Happy 75 young lady!
incredible voice, never been anyone like her.
Melanie always brings me to tears. There is something so deeply emotive in her sound...no matter what she sings - and she is extraordinary beautiful...XXXXXXX
I WAS a teen back then. I WAS a huge fan. I AM still and always will.
rest in peace melanie. you will be missed. but then you live on in your music.
Rest in Peace Melanie 💖
I’ve been re - listening to her music, I’m so happy to be reminded what she contributed to music of the time. What a lovely soul.
Great song performed beautifully by Melanie what a voice ❤
RIP Melanie.
For me at 69, this is the best song, sung by the best singer. Hope the young listen to her early.
You forgot "and has the cutest nose in Christendom"... And she still has it.
We are young and we are listening
I think I was dam lucky to have seen on that first evening of Woodstock three rows from the stage in light rain.
I have, we all have. Ear-rape.
4 Sides of Melanie, such a strong voice. RIP
Melanie in 70`s years my favourite woman singer.Gretings from Gdansk(PL)
My God she can really belt out a song, magnificent!
Amazing voice and woman!! Rest in the heavens, Melanie!
This Talented, Gorgeous Woman is still not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame???? Bullsh*t!!! Love You Melanie!!!
She didn't do enough drugs...& Sleep with the right people...🤷
The R-N-R HOF has become a total joke. If you're not a scumbag liberal socialist demorat, you're not getting in.
Sad news , too many of the stars I loved and listened to growing up are fading away ,but leaving fantastic memories.
She sang without an emotional filter, raw and true. I am weeping as I listen. Goodbye, Melanie Safka. Sleep in peace and love.
My Favorite of your cover songs.......Just Beautiful.....
Rest in peace lady
You were so good
So beautiful
How can a version be so incredibly better than the original?
Playing without the minor chord gives it such a strength !
This is usually the first song I play in english when I’m with friends
Love you Melanie…from Chile
The other brilliant version of a song is Joe Cocker singing A Little Help From My Friends which outshines the Beatles' original. I think either Lennon or McCartney said " That's how we should have done it. "
Beautiful, just absolutely beautiful.
Aww, just heard Melanie has died age 76. R.I.P
I LOVE her version of Ruby Tuesday!
A truly unique voice.
Moving performance from the soul. RIP dear lady.
Love you Melanie! Your music left a forever mark on the world and your beautiful sweet soul will be missed❤
When I was a kid I had a huge crush on Melanie. I was mesmerized by her photo on the Gather Me album as an 11 year old boy. All these years later and I am now an old man at 60 and still think she is a beautiful woman inside and out. I don't know her personally but from what I gather by her singing, stories and demeanor she is a lovely soul. When she sings her voice brings me peace. I cannot say that about too many singers. Melanie. Joni Mitchell. Thank you Melanie, for the years of pleasure you have given me with yout voice and art. I still have my original copy of Stoneground Words on Vinyl. Time to put it on for a spin.
Same here.
my beautiful granddaughter Brianna soon to turn 18 chose your version of this amazing song to sing for her senior solo as she graduates from performance academy in West Virginia, i had a dream you were in the audience and came on stage and sang the last chorus with her....i woke up in tears, thank you for making music that is still tattooed in the mind of a sixty year old woman and still being discovered and loved by a 17 yr old who is ready to go out and change the world. We love you for being the soundtrack for our lives from teen to grandma
I love your comment. Simply emotionally epic. I'm stunned. I'm amazed. I'm reading...
Thanks Kathy, I'm going to be 60 this December and love those times, this song, beautiful memories, and my two young adult children grew up listening to these types of music and just love it 👏👏👏👏👏
kathy c I am playing these for my granddaughter every chance I get! Very receptive already!
I love this story. So much heart in this❤
Your beautiful comment brought a tear to the eye of a grizzled 60yr old ❤
Named my daughter Melanie 48yrs ago because of you. "Brand new key" has a special meaning for me.
Such a sacred voice, holy. Invokes memories of past lives.
Melanie always blows me away! You can both see and feel her emotional energy. She is one of the most talented and beautiful natural vocalists that I have ever heard and that says a lot from this old madman.
One of the best cover versions ever.
I love all your songs. Such a unique voice.
Hello Judith
How are you doing today?
RIP Melanie, you had a fantastic voice
Thank you very much for this RUclips Channel...thank you very much for all beautiful songs and videos. My mother loved your song Ruby Tuesday so much,that she called me Melanie when I was born.
Kind regards and love from Germany,Düsseldorf.🐞🙏😊👀🎤🎵🎧🎶💕💓🙂
No one does this song better. Love you Melanie!
ADIOS MELANIE ,TU GRAN VOZ SIEMPRE EN NUESTROS CORAZONES
We just don't have these kinds of singers anymore. Girl power in the 60's and 70's!!! I loved Melanie and her unique voice. When I'm down, these songs bring me back up. I could crawl back into this era easily.
The great ones are disappearing. Melanie was so beautiful to listen to on my AM radio...77WABC
RIP Melanie, thanks for sharing your talent.
Condolences to Family, friends and fans. She was a beautiful soul.
Melanie owns this great Stones classic, a bit like Hendrix and All Along the Watchtower
I have never been able to understand "along the watchtower". I mean, a watchtower is a vertical thing whereas "along" is essentially horizontal. Many songs have nonsenses like this. I wish I could stop myself analysing lyrics. It's a curse. Try getting me started on American Pie ....
@@Hertog_von_Berkshire They are usually astride a very big and long wall.
Sweetest son ever written, perhaps the best version, how good where the stones
Rest easy, Melanie. You brought so much happiness into this world.
WHAT a voice! WHAT a rendition! WHAT emotions! TIMELESS and a perfect MASTERPIECE!
RIP Melanie you were wonderful
I've always loved this version. There are no words to express how much you mean to me, Melanie! Thank you so much for the music.
@Jeff White
Get out of here
its gonna be my funeral song ...it's been my constant companion ...been a Stones and Dylan fan since I was 14 ....Melanie , blows everyone out the window with this version
Melanie have many fond memories of your music when i was a boy you will always be my Ruby Tuesday RIP
I'm seventy and just now seeing this. Just incredible vocals.
Melanie's version of Ruby Tuesday is just ridiculous - the best version EVER.
Have listened to this so many times it still hurts ....the pain in this song can be felt, hauntingly beautiful just a voice and a guitar real music
God bless all that lived then, and more so, to those still Loving life 2day.
That VOICE😌 touches every atom ⚛ in my being😘
Goodness I love this cover so flippin much. Definitely a timeless stand out
Candles in the rain was an iconic album when I was a student in 1969, I'm 71 now and still love this track. Saw Melanie and her son at the opera house Buxton a few years ago she's still terrific.
This is the way to make a song your own. I know life has not always treated you right Melanie,but you are leaving a legacy of such intensely powerful performances like this that people like me can only be thankful to have been breathing the same air as such a genuine artist.
Hippie mother and Flower Power goddess..😢❤
Brilliant! Better than the Stones version! She made this her own!! One of my favorite Melanie performances!!
I never thought melanie would pass away..I am broken.. I loved you melanie..
Best Version of Ruby Tuesday , R.I.P Melanie
If only the young would listen to music like this.
I am young and listen to this, if that makes u happy :D
They will if you share it with them.
Yes. The new generation should be taught to listen & learn from the real musical talent that came out of the 60', 70's & 80's.
I might listen if I had a revolver against my head; who would listen to this by choice?
@@martinpowell9212 I'd rather not dignify this with a response but I can't help saying you are obviously clueless, or just a jerk.